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Re:Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Littl... by cm3 on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:15AM (#12143072)
> Forget benchmarks, it's noticeable at the command line.

What do you mean exactly?

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Re:Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Littl... by rwmj on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:38AM (#12143156)
Well I compile libguestfs (http://libguestfs.org/) on POWER8 fairly regularly and the compilations just fly past. I haven't benchmarked it, and I'm not allowed to benchmark it because of the NDAs we sign, but it's obviously faster than the Intel machines we have. Because of the single-threaded parts of the build (eg. ./configure), these builds benefit much more than just having lots of cores - Amdahl's law and all that.
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